The realme was super impressive when I got it. But, In comparison the realme isn’t as clear. Glad I got the pixel.
The Realme photo looks fake. You just don’t get that much light at night from a 30 second shot without a lot of post processing. You’d probably get blurry stars too, depending on your location.
It’s great if you want to take photos of your friends at night, but if you’re trying to get genuine photos of the stars, I wouldn’t trust it.
Yeah, I agree. Way to much light. Also, good luck getting your mates to sit for 30 seconds.
And, yes, the realme photo was way more blurry. I literally took both these photos around 5 mins of each other about an hour after sundown
Edit: Might have been closer to 2 hours after sundown.
I think any and all comparisons of modern smartphones are worthless beyond personal preference. All of these phones do massive amounts of filtering and post processing which makes any direct technical comparison a waste of time. With equal exposure you could get either of these results with either phone by taking the raw image and doing the right editing.
Comparisons are helpful to find which matches my preferences, and it’s helpful to know which phone will process the images in a way that I can get images I like without doing the processing myself.
beyond personal preference
Yeah thats what i meant, ofcourse you wanna pick the phone that takes images in a way you like, but from a technical point of view its just hard to get real numbers.
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Raw image taking has been around for a long time now, even on smartphones. I’m not sure how processed regular raw shots are on iPhones, but ProRAW pictures are a combination of raw and regular processed pictures according to Apple
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A mate had an iPhone while I was doing this, they asked me to try the same thing with theirs. Gotta say with both my phones I just set them in a steady spot and selected night shot. Didn’t have that option on the iPhone that I could see, but that might be me not knowing how to use it.
My bad, they automatically set the exposure. At the same position it did about 4 seconds exposure and looked a bit darker than the pixel. Will post if they figure out how to send the photo to me.
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The maximum amount of light that can get in your camera is determined by the aperture size, meaning how large the hole in front of the sensor can open, also commonly called f-stop. Smaller f-stop means more light (as it’s a ratio)
The Realme’s regular wide-angle back camera has a maximum aperture of f/1.8, while Pixel has f/1.85. Meaning technically, they’re more or less equivalent, you shouldn’t get that much more light in so little time. This could be the Realme camera software making really shit post-processing…
How can you get 4 minutes of exposure without everything becoming blurred and the stars just lines?
The astrophotography mode on Pixels (the only way to get 4 min exposure in the default camera app) works by taking quite a few photos with shorter exposures and then matching them up in post processing.
You even get a short animation at the end where every captured photo gets processed using the rest, so you can see stars moving around during the capture.
Very cool tech!
Oh. So that’s why it looks better. Photo stacking is OP.
This reminds me. How do you actually take astro-photos on a pixel? From what I’ve read, you just need to point it at the sky and the star button should appear. I have the 8 pro and have never seen it.
You need a tripod or something to rest the phone against. The prompt to take an astrophotography photo doesn’t come up until the phone had been held VERY still for 5-10 sec.
You need to make sure your phone is very still before it appears. I usually will lay mine on a table or the top of a car and then tilt my head underneath it until it appears and when it does gently hit the button. I’ve gotten some pretty cool results from it like shooting stars and even the Milky Way.